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PTERIDOPHYTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
Synonyms:
division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Pteridophyta" is a kind of...):
division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)
Meronyms (members of "Pteridophyta"):
genus Pecopteris (genus of Carboniferous fossil ferns)
nonflowering plant; pteridophyte (plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores)
fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
class Filicinae; class Filicopsida; Filicinae; Filicopsida (ferns)
class Psilopsida; class Psilotatae; Psilopsida; Psilotatae (whisk ferns; comprising the family Psilotaceae or Psilotatae: vascular plants with no roots, partial if any leaf differentiation, and rudimentary spore sacs)
order Psilophytales; Psilophytales (Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants)
class Equisetatae; class Sphenopsida; Equisetatae; Sphenopsida (horsetails and related forms)
class Lycopodiate; class Lycopsida; Lycopodiate; Lycopsida (club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)
Holonyms ("Pteridophyta" is a member of...):
kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)
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